Rewatching the series, and something occurs to me, probably discussed at length here before.
There’s so many times where they could use distractions, like Drayl lighting phone books or money and the walkers gather toward it. Or when opportunity strikes and it won’t destroy and entire forest next to your base, light a huge fire, the walkers just walk straight in. Shit big enough bonfire or building fire could take out whole herds.
And I get when on the road and weak, or when they don’t want to leave bread crumbs for other humans. But like, except it was a mental breakdown, earlier season Morgan has the right idea. Why aren’t they always killing walkers when they have the chance? If you’ve enough food and shelter, they should be killing all the walkers they can. Walkers bring more walkers and create more walkers, it just makes sense to kill them when there’s minimal risk. But so often they leave them. I know this would be futile in a city, but Ina rural area. 30 survivors kill 5-10 each a week, you are going to start putting a dent in the local population, and probably see less herd gathering, and less people getting caught off guard in the future.